Garment.



J. LIEBERMAN.

GA'RMENT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. x8, 1919.

Patented Deo. 30, 1919 JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application led January 18, 1919. Serial No. 271,767.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Garment, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates in general to coats and similar garments which areformed with sleeves, and which are peculiarly intended to be used insports such as golf, or in work, which involves the throwing forward ofthe arms of the wearer.

The object of the invention is to make a coat in such a way that thewearer can throw his arms forward without in so doing being constrainedby the tension and resistance of 1tOhe fabric of an unyielding orinelastic coatack.

A further object is the making of a coat of the foregoing character, theback of which when in use and when the wearer Jis throwing or has thrownforward his arms, will present the same appearance as that of anordinary coat which does not embody my invention.

With the foregoing objects in view, my invention comprehends asleeve-provided coat of the general character represented in theaccompanying drawing and hereinafter described and claimed,-it beingunderstood that the component elements which the coat comprises may bevariously arranged and modified in form and method of assemblage andunion, and that my invention is not, therefore, limited to the preciseembodiment represented in the drawings.

For the purpose, however, of illustrating my invention, I have in theaccompanying drawing represented a preferred embodiment of it.

In the drawing Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of a coat, theright-hand half portion or section of the back of which is shown asunstitched and folded down over a waist line, so as to expose to viewthe right-hand portion of the elastic insert which my inventionembodies.

Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of a coat embodying my invention,illustrating in eX- aggerated edge outline the left-hand gore.

Fig. 3 represents in full lines a horizontal, sectional plan on the line3-3 of Fig. 1, and in dotted lines, the lateral extension of which thecoat is capable; and

Fig. f1 represents a fragmentary left-hand similar horizontal, sectionalplan, typically illustrating the position which the adjunc- "tive partsoccupy when the insert has been extended by the throwing forward of thearms of the wearer.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings l and 2 represent, respectively, the right andthe left hand halves of the coat back proper, which possess the oppositecounterpart shapes of an ordinary two-part coat back, and which in the1nake-up of the garment shown are united by a central seam 3. Of course,if desired, the back proper can be made in one piece.

l and 5 designate, respectively, the left and the right hand halves ofthe coat front, which are respectively extended rea-rwardly by and intothe left and the righthand gores, respectively designated 6 and 7.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

These gores which are of the same fabric A are respectively stitched tosaid halves as at 8 and 9.v

l0 deslgnates an elastic insert which underlies the back proper but isnot attached to said back but only, by the stitch lines 11v and 12, tothe inner free edges of the respective gores 6 and 7.

This insert is made of any elastic fabric, such, for instance, as wovenJersey cloth, or of other suitable elastic material, and may be stitchedas at 13, to the shoulder seams of the body of the coat, as at 14: tothe collar. In the construction shown, the insert is also stitched as atl5 to the lining when the coat is lined.

This insert which underlies the back proper and is preferably by thestitch lines 11 and 12, secured to the front of thecoat, constitutes astretching element in the nature of an entirely concealed inner backwhich by its capacity of being stretched or extended permtits" of the'free forward movement of the sleeves 16 and 17 when the arms of thewearer are thrown forward, without being exposed or altering theappearance of the other and forward, yet they are preferably made ofsuch width, circumferentiall considered, as never to be pulled Whol yout and from under the back proper or so asto expose the elastic insert,and being of the Y same material as the back proper give the visualeffect of. a uniform back.

In the drawing, I have shown a belt 18 upon the coat and have also showna lining i the 'make-up. of certain kinds of coats. The

relation of the adjunctive parts of the coat when in normal and inextended or stretched position, are typically illustrated in Figs. 3 and4. l

It will now be apparent that I have devised a new and useful garmentWhich embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable, andthat While I have, in the present instance, shown and described apreferred embodiment of it which in practice has given satisfactory andreliable results, it is to be understood that the embodiment issusceptible of modification in various particulars Without departingfrom the spirlt or scope of the invention or sacrificing any ofitsadvantages. Having thus described my invention, 'what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. A coat having its back formed by an elastic fabric extendingsubstantially across the back and between the shoulders. and

forming the major portion of the back and substantially from the neckportion to the waist line and secured to juxtaposed portions of thecoat, and a back panel covering said elastic fabric, secured to the coatat its top and bottom, and disconnected from the coat at its sides.

. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my namev this 17th day ofJanuary,

JOSEPH LIEBERMAN.- In the presence of- J. BoNsALL TAYLOR,

' C. D. McVAr.

